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‘Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will’ is the new album from Mogwai, released on 14th Feb 2011.. To support that, they’ve got a host of Scottish tour dates lined up for January before they head off to tour ‘the world’.. tickets for which go on sale this Friday. They’re all in some interesting venues (Paisley Town Hall?!), so click onward to find out where and...
As Bristol’s Colston Hall reopens its doors to live music again, who better to terrorise the venue for a day than Invada Records, the brainchild of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow? Barrow has secured noise poets Mogwai to headline Invada Invasion, with plenty of sterling support drawn from local ranks and the Invada label. Three stages, projectionists, and what Barrow describes...
DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH? Dan from Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Bonus Eventus and Let’s Wrestle give us their picks of 2009 as we near completion of our Guest top 10s. TING TINGS Pure pop from two of the nicest people I’ve ever met in the music business, We toured with them in 2008 and watched them blow up and go on to world wide success, I’m really happy for...
“If you have a barrier, look past it, fuck the barrier, deal with it.” Words to live by from Shaun Hencher, frontman of Nottingham-based kerblammo rock princes Lovvers. It’s not a metaphor for anything, he’s talking about an actual barrier, as in one that Lovvers might find between them and the audience. The fucking is probably a figure of speech too, but if you’ve...
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Mogwai Reviews

Venue: London ICA Teaser: Smarter, faster, harder - that’s Fuck Buttons, and Kishan Callychurn was on hand to bring us this review when they brought their digital assault to London’s ICA… Pull quote 2: Intentionally or otherwise, they’re a call to arms, a ‘fuck off’ to bland ‘oooh, please like me’ music that dares to call itself alternative…...
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  • Bully For You

    Gorgeous Bully From: Plymouth, United Kingdom The more sanitised, synthetic and computerised mainstream music becomes the more the discerning music lover yearns for something a little more...
  • Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down Remix EP

    Having already garnered quite a following in his native Sweden, Johan Reinhold is introducing himself to our ears with his indie-electro-pop sensibilities in the form of a remix EP. Music after the...
  • Corpse Lights: A Curdled Churn

    Woe betide any unfortunate soul who suddenly has a flash of inspiration and records one of the most brilliant songs of the year in mid-December: it simply won’t even get heard amongst all...
  • The King Khan Experience

    I Love The Way You Howl King Khan recently retired The Shrines and The BBQ Show and started a new project – The King Khan Experience. He’s been getting compared to Jimi Hendrix his...
  • Secret Diaries: Parcel Delivery

    Secret Diaries have one of those supremely satisfying band names that make you wonder why no-one has thought of it before. I love it when that happens. And speaking of ‘supremely...

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  • In Pictures: FOE

    Photos from a recent FOE gig - a friend of our friends Hold Your Horse Is - she’s gonna be big!!! Read the gig review after the jump.
  • In Pictures: Avett Brothers

    Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11 Read the review of the gig here.
  • In Pictures: Latitude Festival 2011

    Take a look at the acts and art on offer at this year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk. Included are the likes of Fight Like Apes, Lykke Li, Sea of Bees and Seasick Steve. Photos from our own...
  • In Pictures: Bad Guys at the Old Blue Last

    Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.  
  • In Pictures: White Lies and Crocodiles at Shepherd's Bush Empire

    Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...

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